5 Christmas Movies Directed By Women

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Sooooo....it's been almost a month since my last post. I would say that there was some crazy thing that happened to keep me from this sweet sweet blog of mine, but there wasn't - just life and work and all that. I'm home from work real early today. I took a walk, put on my Christmas cat pj pants my sister got me, and it's still not even dinner time. So, Charlie went back to editing photos, and I decided a quick blog might be nice; nothing important or even that exciting, but just something so you remember I'm still around thinking about how more women can get more clit diddling in their lives. 

This blog is not gonna specifically be about clits though - more about Christmas and stuff (although let's never forget all the women in all those Christmas movies have clits that are probably not getting touched near as mcuh as they should).. As I'm writing this, I'm watching "The Princess Switch: Switched Again" You may have seen "The Princess Switch." Well this is the sequel. It's a Hallmark-style Netflix Original Christmas movie. Do I love it? Yes. I do indeed like a holiday themed movie. 

Here, my friends, are some more of these movies that you might want to enjoy this holiday season...ya know, if you're into that sort of thing.

A Little History of These Lists

I started doing this categorized List of 5 movies thing where I showcase movies that were directed by women and that I have actually seen. It all started during the Directed By Women Worldwide Viewing Party in September 2015, and it was pretty fun, so I've continued doing it from time to time.

It's a bit off-topic from my normal fare, ya know, being that it's not specifically about lady-gasms or anything like that, but I think it fits the blog because
1. this blog is also about indie movie-making, and
2. this blog is partially about getting the female perspective of sexuality into our media. So, to me, supporting female voices in our media  means we're creating more room for female voices to speak on all types of things, which sometimes will be sex, orgasms, and sexuality.

You can find all my 5-movie lists HERE.

Get some hot chocolate, popcorn, marshmallows, cookies, and whatever else you like to eat in the winter, and enjoy.

The Movies

1 Home for the Holidays - This was directed by Jodie Foster. This is a 1995 movie, and I saw this way back sometime around then. I like Jodie Foster, but honestly don't remember the movie much. That might mean I need to watch it again.

2 Black Nativity - This was directed by Kasi Lemmons. I saw this on the plane to Brazil for a work trip right before Christmas in 2014. Thoroughly enjoyed it. It was exactly what I wanted to watch.

3 Christmas Crush - This was directed by Marita Grabiak. I just watched this recently streaming. It's a bonker Christmas movie, and if you are going to watch one of these (as I am wont to do), why not watch one directed by a woman?

4 The Preacher's Wife - This was directed by Penny Marshall. Okay, so the story with me and this movie is as follows. My 2nd date with my now husband Charlie...maybe my 3rd...The first was probably Snow Whirl, our high school's winter dance, and the 2nd was to Burger King and the movie Jerry Maquire. Anyway, the 3rd was like the Saturday before Christmas and we were supposed to go see The Preacher's Wife. However, as we were approaching, I suggested we park and make out instead, and that's what we did. I didn't actually see the movie until probably 10 years later, and I thought it was a lovely Christmas movie. Watch it.

5 The Knight Before Christmas - This was directed by Monika Mitchell. Listen, this is a Hallmark-style Christmas movie in all it's glory and I loved it. It's the same main character as the Princess Switch that I'm currently watching, and honestly, I kinda feel like the Christmas movies she's in are a bit more high quality - mostly as in the technically aspects and set design. Anyway, I watched this very recently, and it's about a Knight from medieval times that gets timetraveled to modern day Christmas time, and falls in love...so...it's awesome. 

The Holiday - The SSL Review

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It's not the holidays, nor is it that I just happened to catch this holiday movie recently. It is simply that I remembered a line from it and thought I should blog about it before I forgot. There are no specific depictions or discussions of female sexual release to critique, but the line I remember is still a poignant indication of our culture's understandings, expectations, and fantasies about female sexuality.

The Holiday is about 2 women wanting to escape their lives (particularly their love lives) for the holidays who end up deciding to do a vacation house swap. Diaz, the high-powered movie trailer director with a beautiful, modern LA mansion goes to the English country side to stay in Winslet's cute little cottage, and Winslet goes to enjoy the LA living. Of course, they both find love interests, conflicts arrive, etc. It's a Hollywood form movie, but I won't knock it. If these kinds of Hollywood form movies are the kind you enjoy on a Saturday afternoon (cause we all have a type that we'll watch no matter how bad), then you'll probably like this one. This is definitely my type, and it was actually quite an enjoyable watch.

But let's get back to the SSL review... Diaz is chillin' in the English cottage, when Winslet's brother arrives drunk, to catch some Z's on his sister's couch. They're both a little surprised - cause he didn't know his sister had swapped houses, and she didn't expect the woman's brother to show up and spend the night. However...why not?! They drank a little, talked a little and decide to go to bed. Oh, did I mention the brother is Jude Law, and he's hot. So, Jude kisses her goodnight on the lips, and she says  that since she's on vacation, they should probably do it. Before they head up to get it on though, she says her boyfriend said she's not good at sex, and Jude absolutely cannot believe that. He asks her what she thinks of foreplay, and she tells him it's overrated. He's way totally cool with that...and end scene. It is then the next morning, and we can't be sure about what may or may not have happened, but Jude does tell her she is not bad at sex BTW.

So we have a hot woman who just wants to fuck - the ol' in and out, ya know? Finally, (Jude must be thinking) a woman who is man enough and sexual enough to see how silly and unnecessary all that romantic bullshit foreplay crap is  - I mean finally, a woman who gets it! Honestly, though, I think that is the sentiment there. It's like foreplay is a woman thing that men have to do in order to get what they want. Foreplay is looked at like the thing that women, being the less sexual of the genders, need to warm them up for the real stuff. A woman who doesn't need the foreplay, like Diaz, is prized as a woman who got over the womanly tendency to need warming up. She's sexual. She has sex like a man.

Here's the problem though. That's a completely backassward understanding of women's sexual needs. I'll say this for the 500th time. Women do not orgasm